2009 AFC President's Cup

The 2009 AFC President's Cup was the fifth edition of the AFC President's Cup, a competition for football clubs in countries categorized as "emerging nations" by the Asian Football Confederation. Eleven teams competed for the title and were split up into three groups, playing each other team in their group once. The winner of each group and the best runner-up qualified for the semifinals, and the winners of the semifinal matches played in the final match to determine the winner.

2009 AFC President's Cup
Tournament details
Host countryTajikistan
Dates12 May – 14 June (group stage)
25–27 September (final stage)
Teams4 (final stage)
11 (total) (from 11 associations)
Final positions
Champions Regar-TadAZ (3rd title)
Runners-up Dordoi-Dynamo Naryn
Tournament statistics
Matches played18
Goals scored69 (3.83 per match)
Top scorer(s) Soe Min Oo
(6 goals)
Best player(s) Khurshed Mahmudov[1]

Each group was to be played over a period of days in May and June at one venue - Group A at Dashrath Stadium, Nepal, Group B at Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka and Group C at Spartak Stadium, Bishkek.

The final stage of the competition took place in Tajikistan from September 25–27.

Qualifying teams
Association Team Qualifying method App Last App
Bangladesh Abahani Ltd. 2008–09 B.League champions 2nd 2008
Bhutan Yeedzin FC 2008 A-Division champions 1st —
Cambodia Phnom Penh Crown 2008 Cambodian League champions 2nd 2005
Chinese Taipei Taiwan Power Company 2008 Enterprise Football League champions 3rd 2008
Kyrgyzstan Dordoi-Dynamo Naryn 2008 Kyrgyzstan League champions 5th 2008
Myanmar Kanbawza 2008 Myanmar Premier League champions 2nd 2008
Nepal Nepal Police Club 2006–07 Martyr's Memorial A-Division League champions1 3rd 2008
Pakistan WAPDA 2008 Pakistan Premier League champions 3rd 2008
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Army SC 2008 Sri Lanka Football Premier League champions 1st —
Tajikistan Regar-TadAZ 2008 Tajik League champions 4th 2008
Turkmenistan FC Aşgabat 2008 Turkmenistan League champions 2nd 2008

1 No league held in 2008 so 2006–07 champions qualify.

Group stage

Group A
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Regar-TadAZ 3 1 2 0 5 3 +2 5
WAPDA 3 1 2 0 3 1 +2 5
Taiwan Power Company 3 1 0 2 5 8 −3 3
Nepal Police Club 3 0 2 1 4 5 −1 2
Source:
Regar-TadAZ 0 – 0 WAPDA
Report
Dasarath Rangasala Stadium, Nepal
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Vo Minh Tri (Vietnam)
Nepal Police Club 2 – 3 Taiwan Power Company
Silwal  21'
Chetan  84'		 Report Feng Pao-hsing  22'
Lin Po-yuan  46'
Lee Meng-chian  57' (pen.)
Dasarath Rangasala Stadium, Nepal
Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Hedayat Mombeni (Iran)
Taiwan Power Company 1 – 3 Regar-TadAZ
Fang Ching-jen  79' Report Rabimov  28'
Rustamov  83'
Eminov  85'
Dasarath Rangasala Stadium, Nepal
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Kenji Ogiya (Japan)
WAPDA 0 – 0 Nepal Police Club
Report
Dasarath Rangasala Stadium, Nepal
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Lee Min-Hu (Korea Republic)
Taiwan Power Company 1 – 3 WAPDA
Fang Ching-jen  10' Report Mehmood  74', 81'
Akram  89'
Dasarath Rangasala Stadium, Nepal
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Lee Min-Hu (Korea Republic)
Nepal Police Club 2 – 2 Regar-TadAZ
Chetan  28', 64' Report Nematov  24'
Rustamov  47'
Dasarath Rangasala Stadium, Nepal
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Kenji Ogiya (Japan)

Group B
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
FC Aşgabat 2 1 1 0 5 1 +4 4
Abahani Ltd. 2 1 1 0 2 1 +1 4
Sri Lanka Army 2 0 0 2 2 7 −5 0
Source:
Sri Lanka Army 1 – 2 Abahani Ltd.
Yussif  43' (o.g.) Report Faisal  41'
Tipu  73'
Attendance: 3,500
FC Aşgabat 5 – 1 Sri Lanka Army
Mirzoýew  2', 37'
Amanow  50', 86'
Urazow  74'		 Report Priyankara  58'
Attendance: 2,500
Referee: Fan Qi (China)
Abahani Ltd. 0 – 0 FC Aşgabat
Report
Attendance: 8,700

Group C
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Dordoi-Dynamo Naryn 3 3 0 0 12 2 +10 9
Kanbawza 3 2 0 1 9 7 +2 6
Phnom Penh Crown 3 1 0 2 7 8 −1 3
Yeedzin FC 3 0 0 3 3 14 −11 0
Source:
Dordoi-Dynamo Naryn 7 – 0 Yeedzin FC
Murzaev  2', 15' (pen.), 65', 79'
Tetteh  29', 87'
Mulajanov  46'		 Report
Spartak Stadium, Kyrgyzstan
Attendance: 7,500
Referee: Vladislav Tseytlin (Uzbekistan)
Kanbawza 4 – 3 Phnom Penh Crown
Soe Min Oo  7', 38', 44'
Khin Maung Lwin  37'		 Report Mpoko  20'
Lappé-Lappé  21' (pen.), 30',
Spartak Stadium, Kyrgyzstan
Attendance: 500
Phnom Penh Crown 1 – 3 Dordoi-Dynamo Naryn
Lappé-Lappé  33' Report Tetteh  45'
Murzaev  47'
Sydykov  79'
Spartak Stadium, Kyrgyzstan
Attendance: 8,000
Yeedzin FC 2 – 4 Kanbawza
Chophel  10'
Tenzin  31'		 Report Rinchen  38' (o.g.)
Soe Min Oo  38', 81'
Win Min Htut  78'
Spartak Stadium, Kyrgyzstan
Attendance: 150
Referee: Kakabaý Seýidow (Turkmenistan)
Phnom Penh Crown 3 – 1 Yeedzin FC
Lappé-Lappé  22', 63'
C. Rithy  43'		 Report Tschedupla  40'
Spartak Stadium, Kyrgyzstan
Attendance: 300
Referee: Vladislav Tseytlin (Uzbekistan)
Dordoi-Dynamo Naryn 2 – 1 Kanbawza
Tetteh  28'
Amirov  38'		 Report Soe Min Oo  3'
Spartak Stadium, Kyrgyzstan
Attendance: 8,500
Referee: Kakabaý Seýidow (Turkmenistan)

Best runner-up

The best runners-up team from among the three pools qualify for the semi-finals. Because group B consists of only three teams, matches against fourth-placed sides in the other groups are excluded from the following comparison.

Grp Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
A WAPDA 2 1 1 0 3 1 +2 4
B Abahani Ltd. 2 1 1 0 2 1 +1 4
C Kanbawza 2 1 0 1 5 5 0 3
Source:

Note on tie-breaking situation:

Final stage

Semi-finals
Dordoi-Dynamo Naryn 2 – 1 FC Aşgabat
Samsaliev  31'
Harchenko  46'		 Report Muhadow  54'
Metallurg Stadium, Tajikistan
Attendance: 2,500
Regar-TadAZ 4 – 3 (a.e.t.) WAPDA
Rabimov  74'
M. Rustamov  90+1', 113'
H. Rustamov  106'		 Report Zulfiqar  42'
Mehmood  84'
Bakhsh  103'
Metallurg Stadium, Tajikistan
Attendance: 6,000

Final
Regar-TadAZ 2 – 0 Dordoi-Dynamo Naryn
Rabimov  7'
Mahmudov  55'		 Report
Metallurg Stadium, Tajikistan
Attendance: 10,000
 AFC President's Cup 2009 

Regar-TadAZ
Third title

References
  1. "Regar skipper seals second MVP award". The-AFC.com. Asian Football Confederation. 2009-09-29. Retrieved 2012-04-05.
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